A woman whose smile is open and whose expression is glad has a kind of beauty no matter what she wears.
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| Birth: | 25th December, 1935 |
| Nationality: | American |
| Profession: | Journalist, Writer, Essayist, Novelist |
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Anne Roiphe was born and raised in New York City. She is an American writer and journalist. She is best known as a first-generation feminist, and author of the novel Up The Sandbox, which was filmed as a starring vehicle for Barbra Streisand in 1972. In 1996, Salon called the book "a feminist classic." She graduated from the Brearley School in 1953, and received her B.A. from Sarah Lawrence College in 1957. Roiphe published her first novel, Digging Out, in 1967. Her second, Up The Sandbox, became a national best-seller and made the author's career. Roiphe has since published seven novels and two memoirs, while contributing essays and reviews to The New York Times, The New York Times Magazine, New York Magazine, and others. Her 1996 memoir Fruitful A memoir of Modem Motherhood was nominated for the National Book Award.
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